News In Brief

September 5, 1984

Reagan administration officials say the two Americans killed when Nicaraguan soldiers shot down a US-made helicopter near the Honduran border were not working for the government. The helicopter and four airplanes had attacked a military school on Saturday.

The leftist Sandinista government sent the United States a note protesting the attack. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega has offered to help the US government to identify the dead crew members.